Hi,
I just wanted the list to know that I forwarded details of two CrossRef
errors that I came across to CrossRef in response to a request from them for
detailed examples. I look forward to seeing their response and hope that it
can be forwarded to this list.
Do publisher's routinely check their error logs for requests from third
party sites that aren't fulfilled? If not, should they consider doing so?
One link broken in the chain is a pain.. for the user and for those of us
who demonstrate these services!
Cheers
Lesley
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Eric Hellman
Sent: 11 February 2002 19:32
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Subject: Re: Quality Control of CrossRef
I forwarded this post on to Amy Brand at Crossref and got the following
answer:
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At 5:30 PM -0500 2/9/02, Amy Brand wrote:
Without examples of the links and a description of the error message, it is
difficult to know what's going on. We have found that some DOIs get a
handle system error message (most users think this is an error from the
publisher's site), which means that the DOI hasn't been registered. It
appears that publishers are sending out DOIs to third parties before
registering them with CrossRef. There is an email address on the error page
where information can be sent and this gets back to CrossRef.
It is useful to get examples of DOIs that don't resolve and then we can
approach the publisher to see what the problem is.
Amy
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At 9:51 AM +0000 2/8/02, Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On a number of occasions recently when I've been demonstrating ejournals to
>my users I have been showing them how the CrossRef links link to other
>publisher's journals. On several occasions the CrossRef links have lead to
>an error message on the other publisher's site. In some cases I was
>surprised to see the CrossRef links since I was sure that the particular
>reference in question was not available electronically.
>
>How are these errors monitored so that the quality of the CrossRef links is
>improved?
>
>I don't know if other people have come across these problems.
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
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>Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant/List owner :
Lis-E-Journals,
>LIS, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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>phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666
>web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/
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